Woman's research reunites family

After three trips to the public library, some online detective work and a little cold calling, a Goose Creek, S.C., homemaker reunited a long-lost heir with his great-grandfather's Civil War discharge papers, and in the process brought back together a family that had lost touch for about half of a century. • Article

Palmetto State has opportunity, risks

South Carolina can claim a huge chunk of the Civil War anniversary tourism dollars if it is first out of the blocks in December and does it right, state leaders were told. But unless the state is aggressive in marketing itself over the next five years, it could lose out to celebrations elsewhere, such as Virginia, as "the" go-to site for Civil War remembrances. • Article

Charleston seeks funding for 2011 events

The City of Charleston is expecting a quarter of a million people to come to the Lowcountry next April with events stretching from White Point Gardens to Marion Square to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter, the first shots of the Civil War. The city is estimating the cost for its sesquicentennial events at $90,000. • Article

S. Carolina scouring for 150th money

The Civil War began in South Carolina nearly 150 years ago and officials are looking for money for severl events. • Article

Re-enactor sleeps in slave quarters

Joseph McGill is a program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in South Carolina. But that's only his day job. On the side, McGill is a Civil War reenactor who has recently begun sleeping in former slave cabins. • Article

Battle of Bloody Bridge mostly forgotten

This is the Civil War ambush you likely have never heard of, in a place you likely have driven right by. Some 2,000 South Carolina cavalry militiamen withstood four times as many Union soldiers for three days in suffocating summer swelter in a tidal swamp on Johns Island near Charleston. • Article

Baseball game in 1862 drew 10,000

The score of what might have been one of the largest sporting events of the 19th century — and played on Hilton Head Island — is still a mystery. The Hilton Head Baseball Championship took place Christmas Day 1862, with about 10,000 Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners watching, according to regimental records at the New York State Military Museum. • Article